Page 6 - Campaign Computers News Today

It accuses them of seeking to undermine candidate hillary clinton. their alleged offenses include identity theft, conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to commit computer crimes. the indictment charges that these russian officers stole data on 500,000 u.s. voters, installed malware on campaign computers, and kept up their hacking operation until one month before the election. there have been demands by some members of do you think for the summit to be called off, the white house says that w...

Coming up with vladimir putin in helsinki. arthel, back to. >> arthel: and the world will be watching. thank you, kevin. >> eric: meanwhile looming over the justice department stunning announcement yesterday about the russian election interference. special counsel, robert mueller, indicted 12 russian intelligence officers. accusing them of packing the d&c and clinton campaign computers. in order to interfere with our presidential election. gillian turner with more from washington. >> reporter: i...

Fbi and in charge of cyber response for the national security counsel. he is one of the first to see the russians hacking into state election systems. the hackers, they hacked into the dnc, the hillary clinton campaign computers and did a lot more. >> thats right, wolf. this indictment lays out in great detail the charges against 12 russian military officers. they are people who work for the gru, the russian military intelligence agency and charged with cyber hacking, identity theft and money la...

Answered. this lobbyist told the washington post that he had become a u.s. citizen back in 2009. and the russian attorney also the hill reports she came into the u.s. legally. both of these instances of course would be -- sounds like during the obama administration. so if they pose a threat to the country, is the obama administration to blame in any way? >> what we know for sure is they have relevant information. they ought to be sought by the judiciary committee to tell their story and what pos...

War require? an appropriate response. war. it seems like we are moving towards conflict with russia. why? >> whenever you get people in politics who do not understand foreign policy and geopolitics forget to talk about it in a political context? they are out of their league and it leaves behind a trail -- if you do not pick it up and run with it -- the problem here is theres only one issue. i assume the intelligence communities are looking into this. was there anything with russia having to do w...

Russia is a real country, there are geopolitical consequences. an act of war, what is an act of war require? inappropriate response. more. it seems like we are moving towards conflict with russia? >> whenever you get people in politics who do not understand foreign policy and geopolitics forget to talk about it in a political context? they are out of their league and it leaves behind a trail -- if you do not pick it up and run with it -- the problem here is theres only one issue. i assume the in...

A wake up call to just how awe the campaign has been. at the time, the idea that chinese foreign government would enter a political campaign was usual. certainly was unprecedented, but there you had right smack in the middle of the campaign, the fbi discovers that both campaign computers had been penetrated. the viruses are much more serious than anybody had imagined and they were swiping data. swiping campaign data. e-mail frs people who are going to be, whoever wins, in top foreign policy posi...

cochair for the mitt romney campaign. he has become nationally known for his tough stance on illegal immigration and is running for congress. the phoenix new times reports that he wanted his exto shine an agreement to keep their relationship a secret. the exan immigrant refused and says he threatened to get him deported back to mexico. the attorney is accusing him of accessing campaign computers without permission. the sheriff denies any wrong doing. >> im here to say that these allega...

President trump did not do. i took the indictment, i had it in my hands and i talked to him about what was in it, the specific units and the gru, the military intelligence unit of russia and that these were actors of the russian state and did he want to see it. he said no, he wouldnt touch it. put it down on the table. we then argued is too strong a word but went back and forth in an intense way. this is remarkable television for a good eight to ten minutes about the allegations. at one point th...